The Top 10 worst days in the history of the University of Alabama:
April 4, 1865: Union troops under the command of Brigadier General John Thomas Croxton burn the university to the ground.
June 11, 1963: Governor George Wallace makes his infamous stand in front of the door of Foster Auditorium in an effort to keep African-American students out of the University of Alabama. This stunt helped stereotype the state as a bunch of backwoods, Klan robe wearing racists to the rest of the nation.
January 3, 1981: Auburn University hires Pat Dye as it's head football coach, turning the atmosphere of the Iron Bowl.
November 27, 1982: Vincent "Bo" Jackson goes "over the top" and scores the winning touchdown in the Iron Bowl at Birmingham's Legion Field. This win snapped a 10 year win streak by the Tide and forever changed the momentum of this series. Over the next 29 years, Auburn will win 17 Iron Bowls.
December 2, 1989: Alabama plays it's first ever game on the campus of Auburn University. The Tide entered the contest at Jordan-Hare stadium with a 10-0 record and #2 national ranking. Auburn wins the game, 30-20, ending Alabama's quest for a national title. Auburn moved their home game from Birmingham in order to get a "fair shot" during it's turn as the home team, something they never had in the pro Alabama venue of Legion Field.
May 3, 2003: Mike Price is fired as head coach after a seedy romp with a Pensacola (FL) stripper. This event gave birth to one of the funniest one liners in modern history. During a tryst in his hotel room, the stripper yelled "Roll Tide!" Price responded, "It's rolling, baby! It's rolling!"
November 26, 2010: Auburn rallies from a 24 point deficit to win the Iron Bowl. To add insult to injury, this monumental victory occurred in front of more that 101,000 fans in recently expanded Bryant-Denny stadium. This win improved Auburn's all-time record in Tuscaloosa to 8-1.
January 10, 2011: Auburn wins the BCS National Championship.
April 27, 2011: A violent tornado, rated an EF-4 on the Fujita scale, destroys parts of Tuscaloosa. Although not one blade of grass was damaged on campus, the school hijacks the tragic statewide outbreak as their own, arguably impacting needed relief efforts and resources from other cities in the state that were more severely impacted by the storms.
October 11, 2011: After an extensive 13 month investigation of Auburn University's football program, the NCAA determines that Auburn played by the rules during its recruitment of Cameron Newton, and cleared the school of any wrongdoing. This ruling slammed the door shut on the baseless rumors and internet message board idiocy trumpeted (in large part) by Alabama fans, who claimed the Tigers championship to be illegitimate and would soon be stripped. Tide fans invested long hours and creative writing to convince the nation that Auburn was more evil than Hitler. They failed miserably.
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